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title: Analytics Explorer
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
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# Analytics Explorer

## Overview{% #overview %}

The [Analytics Explorer](https://app.datadoghq.com/product-analytics/explorer) page contains views data aggregation for understanding how your product is being used. You can control:

- The event type (Sessions, Views, or Actions) to see views by.
- The query that filters the set of views to analyze.
- The dimensions over which to split data.
- The visualization method for aggregates and splits.

With Analytics visualizations, you can:

- Create a widget in a dashboard out of that visualization.
- Dive deeper into subsets of the events list depending on the interactions that the visualization enables.

## Using the analytics chart{% #using-the-analytics-chart %}

- [Search syntax](https://docs.datadoghq.com/product_analytics/charts/analytics_explorer/search_syntax)
- [Events](https://docs.datadoghq.com/product_analytics/charts/analytics_explorer/events)
- [Visualize](https://docs.datadoghq.com/product_analytics/charts/analytics_explorer/visualize)
- [Groups](https://docs.datadoghq.com/product_analytics/charts/analytics_explorer/group)
- [Export](https://docs.datadoghq.com/product_analytics/charts/analytics_explorer/export)

## Build a query{% #build-a-query %}

In [Analytics](https://app.datadoghq.com/product-analytics/explorer), customize your display by adding facets and measures to your search query.

1. Select a [view event type](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/guide/understanding-the-rum-event-hierarchy/).

   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/product_analytics/analytics/view_type_selection1.a2e809247226d760d404d69c9328383b.png?auto=format"
      alt="Drop down menu in Product Analytics scoped to the Views type selection." /%}

1. Choose a measure to graph the unique count.

   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/product_analytics/analytics/measure_selection1.fc741092a1ee015cb05e894e3f204698.png?auto=format"
      alt="Drop down menu in Product Analytics for choosing a measure to graph the unique count." /%}

1. Filter by event attributes or attributes from [third party integrations](https://app.datadoghq.com/product-analytics/integrations/custom-attributes).

   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/product_analytics/analytics/pana_analytics_filter_by.26ba4b0ccdbeece9bfe30036e8cd8a84.png?auto=format"
      alt="Drop down menu in Product Analytics to filter events by their own attributes or by attributes pulled from third party integrations." /%}

1. Choose an event attribute to further break down results.

   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/product_analytics/analytics/pana_analytics_breakdown_by1.46ca048f552f2bb56f47ee27f9b6d225.png?auto=format"
      alt="Drop down menu in Product Analytics to further breakdown events by their own attributes or by attributes pulled from third party integrations." /%}

1. Apply a [function](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/functions/#overview) to modify how the results of the query are returned for visualizations.

   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/product_analytics/analytics/pana_analytics_functions.50dde46e303041ed122bac2aa077cb03.png?auto=format"
      alt="Button in Product Analytics to add a function to modify how the results of a metric query are returned for visualizations.." /%}

1. Choose the [graph type](https://docs.datadoghq.com/product_analytics/charts/analytics_explorer/visualize/) and time interval for your graph. Changing the global timeframe changes the list of available timestep values.

   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/product_analytics/analytics/pana_analytics_time_interval2.549a033071d08e1a2511b511f4e8f354.png?auto=format"
      alt="Choose a graph type and time interval for your graph." /%}

## Further Reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Explore your views within Datadog](https://docs.datadoghq.com/real_user_monitoring/explorer/search/)
- [Add a function to your query](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/functions/)
- [Use geomaps to visualize your app data by location](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-geomaps/)
- [Use funnel analysis to understand and optimize key user flows](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/reduce-customer-friction-funnel-analysis/)